[Terry Flaxton]

I’ll do that thanks…

A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !

[Terry Flaxton]

That was my point really – I’ve been doing this since 1976 – from analog forward. But this time I got 23 gig from 11. So I wondered at that – are there any people out there that had this kind of anomaly?

A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !

[Terry Flaxton]

That’s close to what I did but s I say got 23 gig from an 11 gig file. As to the next post – yes of course – normally simple maths, but I got different.

A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !

[Terry Flaxton]

So this will more than probably be encoded into a flash file (I would guess). The file uploads to sedition art https://www.seditionart.com/search/flaxton So artists make work, encode them to Mp4 or H264.. Which is what I’ve been doing for some while now. My surprise was that pro res to 264 doubled the file size – my normal experience is smaller files but I do know that pro-res is compressed and has it’s own functionalities.

A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !

[Terry Flaxton]

Thanks Ryan – I think the key tip is the conversion from h264 to pro res. I output a animation codec with alpha channels but of course FCPx turns it into pro res which kills the transparency (I think). Also the quality is not good for some reason. The best I’ve had so far is H264 into a pro-res timeline on FCP7 then render out into pro res.

If I understand you correctly I should transcode all the original footage into pro res then upload it into fcp7 (in that configuration) having upgraded the video card and added more ram.

Also I’ve considered putting all of this on a 4k timeline (I know that FCP7 has an architecture that limits it to 2k) – but given that my last project took 14 days to render for 5 minutes that makes me wonder even if fcpx can dent that much (if not have a quadrupled or tripled timing). The latest project has 70 video images running concurrently.

This is an art project by the way – think David Hockney’s polaroids with video

A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !

[Terry Flaxton]

Thanks Oliver. This is the sort of thing you know deep down but sometimes needs others to prompt that knowledge to come into focus – thanks a lot.

A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !

[Terry Flaxton]

Thanks for this – but: has anyone any specs on internal raid 3 x ssd’s read and write even if it’s just using a Kona tool. My current 3 x 2T hard drives read about 340 MBs – -so what do 3 x ssd’d do?

Thanks for all answers up till now.

A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !

[Terry Flaxton]

By mini sas controller, do you mean a card that takes in the output of the min sas box? Sorry, I’m unfamiliar with this stuff (also, previously I had a card with 4xesata in)

Best Terry

A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !

[Terry Flaxton]

Bob – if you gang these together, can you multiply the read write speeds? or just increase storage? I used to use sonnet and when ganged up could double the speed with each box

A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !

[Terry Flaxton]

Thanks for this and whilst I went offline.

I discovered the people supplying the streams were giving one extra frame of audio per interview which was the cause…

doh!

Best, Terry

A long term DP – likes 35mm and HD equally – changing with digital media – Began as a commercials editor !